New US anthrax victim expected to recover

The latest victim of anthrax in the US is expected to make a full recovery.

The woman works in the office of CBS news anchor Dan Rather in New York and has tested positive for the skin form of the disease.

It is the same form of anthrax that infected an aide to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, after she handled a letter that was addressed to him.

CBS News president Andrew Heyward says the latest victim is "expected to make a full recovery; in fact, she feels fine".

He said she is being treated with antibiotics.

The announcement came a day after Governor George Pataki moved his staff to a new location after his New York City office tested positive for anthrax bacteria.

Pataki said he was taking the antibiotic Cipro, as a precaution, but does not plan to get tested for the disease that has infected two other people in New York City.

Three more have tested positive for exposure.

"I don't think it's necessary," Pataki said Wednesday. "I feel great."

US officials say they do not know whether the anthrax exposures in Washington, New York and Florida - where one man has died - are the work of foreign or domestic terrorists.